Education

Education

Kelsie Abduljawad, of Doha, Qatar, graduated in December 2014 with a master’s degree in educational leadership that she completed online through Penn State World Campus. She has been able to apply what she learned in her coursework to help with decision-making for her school’s accreditation, professional development programming and curriculum.

The College of Education has teamed up with the Pennsylvania Office of Vocational Rehabilitation’s Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services to help high school students who are blind and visually impaired prepare for life as a college student.

More than 28,000 students in Pennsylvania receive special education services for autism. Parents, educators and service providers of children living with autism will converge upon Penn State to share the latest updates and best practices to better serve the growing demographic. The National Autism Conference will be held Aug. 3-6 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel at the University Park campus.

The greater than three-fold increase in autism diagnoses among students in special education programs in the United States between 2000 and 2010 may be due in large part to the reclassification of individuals who previously would have been diagnosed with other intellectual disability disorders, according to new research.

America’s future teachers, counselors and education administrators will be hosting a multimedia poster exhibition to display issues of discrimination in American schools from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, July 17, in the Krause Innovation Studio.

This week, we recognize seven people who go above and beyond what's asked of them in their work at the University. We're sending a "We Are!" to Penn Staters with the Office of Physical Plant, Penn State Harrisburg, Penn State Worthington Scranton, the College of Education and Penn State Shenango.

Seven Penn State researchers will receive seed funding for projects to improve teaching and learning through online innovation. The funding is thanks to the Penn State Center for Online Innovation in Learning (COIL).

Although minority children are frequently reported to be overrepresented in special education classrooms, a team of researchers suggests that minority children are less likely than otherwise similar white children to receive help for disabilities.

College of Education associate professor Julia Plummer and two other educators have received a three-year, National Science Foundation grant worth $1.387 million to develop and study three middle school labs that will support students’ spatial thinking in astronomy.